azesmbog wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:18 pm

But the nuclear reactors themselves are very effective as heat pipes (although they will be very expensive )))))))))

I have thought about it. Price is not a problem for a large base . But it look very unnatural. I'm not ready for this

As you can see in the screen shot, the heat exchanger connected directly to the offshore pump has no water, and that affects the entire row. For some reason, apparently at random, the pump will decide that it isn't providing any water, and the entire row of heat exchangers stop working. Then it wil...

Thanks for sharing. It's unusual and very compact megabase. It looks like there's no single belt

I saw stations that are always blocked. What is its purpose?

You can cut quite many lanes on both the 3 and 4 way intersection. Here is a pic where the lanes marked red can be cut and you keep the same throughput. No, you shouldn’t cut red marked lanes. I have tried it, but traffic jam was forming here. Actually, you can cut some of lanes if you know for sur...

What size are your save games and your hard drive (and how often do you delete saves) that it would "jam the trashcan quickly" ?!? My game saves are 100M each. Ok, maybe it will jam not so quickly. But still, it's unusual to use Recycle bin for overwritten files. That's not consistent. Why couldn't...

Do the same that you do when belts need more throughput: Build more pipes, use higher pipe tiers (modded only), or use trains for mass transport. More pipes would be really complicated for huge nuclear plant. Trains for nuclear water supply? Almost made it. But I still need enormous water flow for ...

The file is not deleted from your OS' file browser GUI, but from within the game. There should be an OS API to delete file into recycle bin by any application. But deleting into recycle bin can jam it quickly (I do lots of manual saves). Only few last gamesaves may be useful, so the game could have...

Dominik wrote: [..]the fluids now behave correctly and intuitively, performance is consistent (pipes to ground won’t help you with throughput anymore).

Then please give some other reasonable way to transfer 3000 fluids/s by single pipe.

deleting a save has a confirmation, but overwriting does not? They're both just as dangerous. :S If there will be confirmation on every action, it may not work because player will be accustomed to press “yes” without any thinking. Despite confirmation still would be a good thing, there could be a w...

At the beginning I liked that anxious music. Biters, biters everywhere… :mrgreen: Produce red bullets, build defense… That was balanced. When I became comfortable with biters, game music started to annoy me. I turned it off. Now I listen to my favorite music. Nevertheless, I don’t want some of anoth...

Explosions and particles look great except rail wood: when it stops, it looks like frozen in the air. I think it’s because there's no shadow underneath. You may say: what a shadow, they are flat. Actually, no: ground shadow is a must. Even tiny shadow gives a big difference. Moreover, wood must be r...

If biters run in zigzag pattern (though it may be difficult to design walls that would work for any direction without being eaten), its time under the fire increase, so we can also say that turet shooting range virtually becomes larger. That's good. How good is it? A gain is equal to General DPS * S...

bobucles wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:33 pm

While unpacking a multi purpose variable may be fast, it still takes time.

Cache misses takes much more time. Even hyperthreading was born

Dualcore system shouldn't be considered as primary dev's target. Does anybody care about Android 4.4? They still exists...

By the way, there’s one important question about funnel width. IMO funnels that are posted in this topic are way too wide. It will not reduce bitter flow (bitters per second arrived - bullets per second spent), so you cannot reduce turret count. Single line of turrets may be not enough. Funneling ha...

We already tried to place multiple stack-inserters around the rocket to insert the fish, but the stack inserters keep holding the fish except one who placed it. We always only manage to send 12 fish into space then. We'd have to wait just some CPU cycles more before the launch of the rocket so the ...

You missed the part where player suggested balance changes are not necessarily going to improve or add value to the game, it may in fact take value away. These changes WILL add value to the game for some players. Polishing does not need to be useful for everyone, does it? Personally I don’t need 32...

Yes, reddit people aren’t majority. Nevertheless, do we always take decisions based on majority? How about arguments? How strong are arguments pro and contra? I think one single man can propose some changes and we don’t need to count which army is bigger. I think we can do lots of small improvements...

Rseding91 wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 10, 2019 3:23 am

The controls menu has no way to know what controls are "ok" to be on the same hotkey and which ones aren't.

If hotkey cannot be evaluated, just display information there's a collision. Player will decide whether it's ok for him or not.

Walls won't work, bitter pathfinding just ignores them. Of course, linear defense is ineffective. But you don't need directing walls for concentrated defense. Biters always switches into attack if there's a turret nearby. So you need to distribute turrets by double switching radius (minus some margi...

That math is far off, unfortunately. Unpacking bit-packed structures like that is not free. Especially not if placed on arbitrary offsets, that's 6-10 extra instructions just for unpacking, including offset-calculation, bit-arithmetic etc., with the nasty side effect of massive register pressure ne...